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Proposed project duration: 7 years

Project districts: Upper West Region: Jirapa, Lawra, Lambussie and Wa West Districts

                          Upper East Region: Binduri and Garu Districts

                          North East Region: East Mampprusi and Yunyoo Nasuan Districts

Accredited Entity: UNEP

Executing Entities: Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet)

Implementing Partners: Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA-DCS) and Water Resources Commission (WRC)

The proposed project objective is to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable smallholder farming communities in northern Ghana by improving food security and enhancing the agro-based rural economy.

Component 1: Early Warning Systems

Output 1 Improved climate data and early warnings made available to facilitate proactive drought and flood management

Component 2: Climate Resilient livelihoods

Output 2: Climate-resilient agricultural practices, EbA and alternative climate-resilient livelihoods implemented in beneficiary communities.

Output 3:   Restoration of landscape to reduce drought and flood risk.

Output 4: Increased access of smallholder farmers to financial resources and engagement with the private sector.

Output 5: Knowledge and awareness of climate threats to agricultural livelihoods and available adaptation options increased to inform the upscaling of climate change adaptation across northern Ghana.

 

Publications

Introduction/Project Basic data

The Savannah Zone Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project designed with a total cost of US$56.32 Million was launched in May 2018 to support the effort of the Ghana Government within the context of Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSODA-II 2014-2017). The Project interventions support the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) Campaign by stimulating the innovative process of production through skills and technological upgrading to lift farmers from low productive agriculture to higher productive activities and thereby creating jobs, alleviating poverty, increasing incomes and improving social inequalities. The project has a life span of 5 years (2018-2022) By the end of its five-year lifespan, the Project will be reaching out to 50,000 direct beneficiaries and 250,000 farmers nationwide through the input subsidy program of the PFJ, with 50% being women and youth.

Introduction:

The Outgrower and Value Chain Fund (OVCF) became effective in 2011. Currently the fund is in its 2nd Phase of implementation with total loan of €33.0 million provided by the Government of Germany through KfW.

The main objective of filling the gap in agricultural financing by providing medium to long-term loans to selected commercially viable value chains through tri-partite contractual relations between Outgrower associations, the Technical Operator (a company that is dedicated to provide inputs, services and technical advice to Outgrowers, as well as buying the produce from the Outgrowers), and a participating bank (Financial Operator).

Introduction

The Ghana Peri-urban Vegetables Value Chain Project (GPVVCP) is a subsidiary project under GCAP being funded by a grant of US$2.85 million from the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) through a Trust Fund Arrangement with the World Bank. The project is being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) through its Directorate of Crop Services (DCS) with management support and project coordination from the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP), and technical support on irrigation from the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA).

Rice Sector Support Project.

This project is implemented by Ministry Of Food and Agriculture in collaboration with Agence Francaise de Development (AFD) of France.

The project is in line with MOFA’s strategy to facilitate the production of food crops to attain food self-sufficiency, output processing and marketing systems.  Rice has been expressly identified in the Food and Agricultural Sector Development Policy (FASDEP) as an important food crop that should be given special attention for food self-sufficiency.

  1. Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP)
  2. Sustainable Development of Rain-fed Lowland Rice Production Project
  3. Inland Valley Rice Dissemination Project (NDRP)
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